I’ve started to look a bit like a shaggy dog, or maybe a slightly older member of a Northern ‘Madchester‘ band – my budget Bangkok haircut was well past its sell by date. It was time to get it cut. Venturing out onto the street I picked a hairdresser’s with the least amount of neon on its façade. I’m not sure by what logic I decided on that, but hey, you’ve got to make a choice somehow. The great thing […]
Random trivial fact language fact, there is not a word for ‘no’ in Chinese. Instead you negate the previous sentence. So, for example if some one asks you ‘Do you like football?’ you would reply with ‘I do not like football’ This goes a long way to explaining why arguments seem to go on so long.
You see, the Chinese have it sorted, no danger of us going the wrong way or getting in the wrong cab here.
Apologies for the colour balance, normally I’m well, more human coloured. I put it down to the altitude.
Very cool, me thinks. This is the toilet, I felt obliged to use it as it was there. Big eh? Top of the world? Yes, it really does go right over the top. Fortunately they are not quite stupid enough to let you go climbing on that bit, otherwise we would certainly have tried.
It’s a bit like Blackpool with better scenery. That’ll be the wall then. Be civilised visitor…
When you’re on the road meetings other travellers rumours abound about the good and bad sights to see. Sometimes you pick up a hot tip about some undiscovered site yet to be picked up by the masses. Thus, we find ourselves on a bus to go and see some secret unpublicised gem of China’s heritage, some sort of large wall. OK. Enough of the bullshit, we’re off to see the ‘Great Wall of China’ or rather one bit of it. […]
It's curious the music inflicted upon you on a coach tour. This I presume is what our Chinese driver thinks we will like and I suppose if you are about 65 or over you would. The trouble is the average age of this group has to be about 30. Hotel California – The EaglesParsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme – Simon & GarfunkelRivers of Babylon – Boney MI am Sailing – Rod StewartTake my Breath Away – BerlinAnything by Celine DionAnything […]